Subscribing to Listservs (Lyris)

There are two main ways to use Lyris software. Almost everything that you need to do on the server is easily and effectively performed via its web interface at http://list.brockport.edu. Another way to use Lyris is to send commands via e-mail as shown below.

1. Subscribing to a mailing list

Since it is impossible to know where a user wants their messages sent, ITSS does not automatically subscribe people to mailing lists. Users must subscribe themselves to the mailing lists from the e-mail address of their preference. To be added to a list, a user simply sends a message to Lyris. Replace <LISTNAME> with your particular list as appropriate in the following commands.

2. Sending messages to the list

3. Unsubscribing from a mailing list

Occasionally, users will need to unsubscribe from a list. Unsubscribing is as simple as subscribing.

To: lyris@list.brockport.edu

Subject: unsubscribe <LISTNAME>

4. Getting Help

Lyris understands several commands, and is not limited to a single command per message (it will process commands until reaching end-of-message). The command “help” will tell you about all the other commands.

Some of the commands which Lyris understands, and which are for everyone to use are:

subscribe <LISTNAME> first name last name

unsubscribe <LISTNAME>

You can get detailed explanations of all these by asking for “help” from Lyris (send a message containing just the word “help” as the message text to lyris@list.brockport.edu).